sizing-units

sizing-units is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing CSS measurement units such as rem, px, percentages, fr, and clamp based on how a value should respond to text-size changes and available space.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when defining typography, control heights, padding, borders, shadows, layout widths, and responsive spacing tokens in CSS.
Why use it?
It helps prevent layouts that ignore a user's preferred text size or become hard to use when screen space changes. It also distinguishes browser text-size settings from full-page zoom.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when defining typography, control heights, padding, borders, shadows, layout widths, and responsive spacing tokens in CSS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/sizing-units
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills --skill sizing-units
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dembrandt/dembrandt-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00146

Measured 7d ago against content hash be073de5c438, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sizing-units scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/sizing-units/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sizing Units

The Question the Unit Answers

A unit is not a formatting preference. It is a declaration of what happens to a value when the user enlarges text.

  • rem — this value belongs to the text and must grow with it.
  • px — this value belongs to the screen and must stay put.
  • %, fr, ch, clamp(), min() — this value belongs to the available space.

Pick the unit by answering that question, not by picking a house style and applying it everywhere. Both absolutist positions — all-rem and all-px — produce defects, and they are different defects.

Zoom Is Not the Font-Size Setting

The common argument for px everywhere is that browsers already have full-page zoom, so the root font size can be ignored. They are separate controls serving separate people.

  • Full-page zoom magnifies everything, layout included. It buys larger text at the cost of horizontal scrolling and fewer items per screen.
  • The browser's default font size enlarges text and leaves the layout alone. This is what a user with low vision sets once, years ago, and never touches again. They will not switch to zoom because your product ignored it.

A product that hard-codes every dimension in px answers the first user and silently refuses the second. WCAG 2.2 SC 1.4.4 (Resize Text) requires text to reach 200% without loss of content or function, and SC 1.4.10 (Reflow) requires the page to survive it in a single column. See [[wcag-accessibility]].

Use rem For

Typography. Every font size and line height. See [[modular-scale-typography]].

Padding around text. A button's inner padding in px means large text presses against its edges. In rem the breathing room scales with the words it surrounds.

Control heights. A 40px control holding 24px text is broken. Write the height token in rem and it stays a control-shaped control at every text size. See [[component-family-consistency]].

Measure. max-width on a text column: 65ch or a rem value, never px.

Gaps between text-bearing blocks. Stack spacing in a form or an article is part of the reading rhythm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 129 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A be073de5c438

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sizing-units is a skill published in the GitHub repository dembrandt/dembrandt-skills (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,465 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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